Archive for the ‘New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Capricorn’ Category

Yesterday I watched as Venus and the last sliver of the Moon had a conversation in the dawn sky. Many days I get up early to go to a yoga class, and when the Moon is almost finished with her journey, she rises with me. If Venus is in her morning phase, we all three rise together. I took a picture from my phone to record the beauty of their dawn rendezvous, but all you can see is the intense relationship between these two gems.

photo: Sarah Fuhro

The New Moon on Saturday will feature an eclipse of the Sun visible in Asia. The big excitement for most of us will come at the full Moon, when there is a total lunar eclipse, the Moon huge in perigee, a ‘blood Moon!’ visible to North and South America, Europe, Middle East, most of Africa, and part of Asia.

The morning I watched the little Moon and sparkling Venus I received a clear message about the new Moon: the word was ‘sensuality’. I could feel that sensuality in the yoga class. I felt my body become integrated with a larger body, the human body! All this makes sense with the huge amount of Capricorn stacked up in this chart. Form, structure, organization, materialization, embodiment, are all characteristics of Capricorn. The sign is usually associated with government or business, and this new Moon takes place as a new Congress is sworn in, after a complete breakdown of government function. The ‘body politic’ needs some embodiment!

photo: Robert Fuhro

Maybe the ice of the winter season after the Solstice is part of that Capricorn structure. Water stilled in the form of ice is reflected at this new Moon moment in the position and degree of Neptune, King of the Waters, in the Water sign of Pisces. Does Neptune work to wash away the Capricorn organization? Or does Capricorn freeze up the watery nature of Neptune in Pisces. This next week should be interesting!!

This much Capricorn, especially with Saturn, ruler of Capricorn in the crowd of planets can create a sense of stillness, felt as depression. Daylight is short. Yet there is also a message of quiet possibility. This is a time to begin to manifest whatever wishes, dreams, visions you have held for many years or lifetimes. Do some magic to focus on the possibility of creation! Put a message into a bottle and send it out into Neptune’s deep waters, beyond the ice jam!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Saturn is the planet of bones, Capricorn is in charge of the joints of our body, structure which holds us together. This new Moon gathering of Capricorn planets includes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Pluto and the South Node, the eclipse point in the chart, what was learned and used but is the tail end of experience, all that which is used up, ready to be left behind!

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Sometimes

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,

you come
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.